Author

VALENTIA, George Annesley, Viscount.

Title

Voyages and travels
in India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt in the years 1802, 1803, 1805, and 1806.

Published, Date

Miller, London,1809.

Description

First edition, 3 volumes, 4to., 3 engraved title vignettes, 69 engraved plates and charts (12 folding), many after Henry Salt, occasional light spotting and offsetting onto text, contemporary marbled calf, rebacked.

Note

George Annesley, Viscount Valentia, was probably the first European traveller in Ethiopia in the nineteenth century. He left England in June 1802 on the Minerva, for a Grand Tour of the East with Henry Salt. They were both antiquarians and avid collectors. Salt had earlier finished his training with the topographical draughtsman and diarist, Joseph Farington, and Valentia appointed him to be his official artist and secretary for the tour.

References

Stock Number

80604